Archives for February, 2009
Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
The Ultimate Billiards in Ft Pierce, FL hosted at their first ever KF event and another record-breaking field turned out the game. $1,700 added event attracted to 112 entrants over the two days. The $1000 was added Open event kicked off the 47 players, and Richard Broumpton doing all the damage. Broumpton went of through to the finals undefeated with the wins over Johnny Reaves 7-5, Javier Chirino 7-2, Cal Mcgann 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, and Curtis Kelley 7-3, putting on him up against Eddie Cabrera for the hot seat match of the game. Cabrera was also having a breakout to this event, beating several of the top players in the rank or field, including wins over Han Berber 7-5, Gail Grecar 7-1, and Bill Dunsmore to put him up against Broumpton for the hotseat match.
To this game match proved to be a tight affair, with Broumpton edging a 7-4 win to take the hotseat. He would now wait of the winner to the one loss side where Josh Lewis was a man on a mission. Lewis had lost his first round match to Prescott Buckwold 7-4, then went on to record 9 very impressive wins beating the likes of Han Berber 7-6, Mike Destefano 7-3, Doug Johnson 7-3, Tony Crosby 7-4, Bill Dunsmore 7-5, Curtis Kelley 7-6 and Eddie Cabrera to put himself in the final, leaving Eddie Cabrera with a fine 3rd place finish.
The Finals was all to Broumpton. Broumpton had recently switched to the new line of Concept Cues, which tour director Tony Crosby and billiard pro Corey Deuel have been developing, It proved to be the right Concept for Broumpton, as he dominated a one sided final besting Lewis 9-2 in the single race final and take his first KF Cue Tour win with the $800 winners purse.
Final Results
1st Richard Broumpton $800
2nd Josh Lewis $600
3rd Eddie Cabrera $450
4th Curtis Kelley $260
5th-6th Jason Richko and Bill Dunsmore $150
7th-8th Tony Crosby and Mark Coats $100
9th-12th Jeff Hughes, Gail Grecar, Randy Epersen and Doug Johnson $65
Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard, 9 Ball Challenge |
Queensland are proudly to announce that there are four people will be travelling down to Adelaide this weekend for a competition, 20-22nd February 09, to attend the Australian National 9 Ball Championships at the Empire Lounge. While the field will be very strong each of the players representing Queensland has an excellent chance of reaching the latter stages of the tournament.
The tournament is broken into 3 days:
At day 1 Scotch Doubles (Mike Vokes & Stephen Burford) winner to represent Australia at World Cup of Pool 2009. All teams play each other in a round-robin event with the top 4 playing in a semi-final and final knockout event.
At Day 2 Singles (Mike Vokes, Stephen Burford, Mark Prociv and Adam List) to compete in a double elimination event against all players in the tournament who are not seeded in the top 16. Once 16 players are remaining, the day is over and these 16 players return to play in day 3
Day 3 The 16 seeded players are drawn against the Qualifying players from Day 2 in another double elimination event, with the winner representing Austalia at the World Championship 2009.
The Association wishes for the best of luck in each player with every success to each and we trust with the hearts that our abilities will be represented well amongst our peers to peers. God speed!
Posted on Feb 27, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard, 9 Ball Pool 2008 |
Midwest 9-Ball Tour Triple Play (KS)
Back to back weekends of pool at Shooters in Billiards at Wichita, Kansas, can’t get in any better than November 28th-30th which held a bar table nine-ball handicapped (rated 3-12) event; and then to the following weekend (December 3rd-7th) at the one-pocket division and $3000 entry bar table ten-ball ring game – this all courtesy of the Midwest 9-Ball Tour and a very tired Evelyn Dysart.
The Results (November 28th-30th – 9Ball Handicapped)
rank 1 Mike Banks, Jr. $2000
rank 2 Randy “Bigg” Gordon $1000
rank 3 Sam Cole $400
rank 4 Shane McMinn $200
rank 5/6 Joey Gray /David Caron $75
rank 7/8 Brian Phillips /Clegg Ratcliff $60
rank 9-12 Randy Kolpin /Mike Teder /Mike Lacy /J.R. Dodd $50
rank 13-16 Junior Brown /David Griffin /Eddie Sipes /Soup Louangrath $40
rank 17-24 Marshall Roney /Alan Martin /Jim Lee /Matt Low /Jesse Vogel /Steve Kakoulias /John Boster /Perry Gibson $30
rank 25-32 Chuck Raulston /Bryant Bishop /Chris Weast /Jerry Keene /Bill Bolin /Jay Lara /George Trujillo /Dave Rymer $20
To next up, at the one pocket division held at the weekend of 3rd to 7th
December. With $1000 added incentive and $100 entry, the competition was fierce at this time around with several coming in to participate in the ring game as well. Tournament at the one-pocket was played on nine-foot tables and when the field dwindled down, the semis held Chip Compton and Buddy Hall. Hall wasted no time to jump into the finals as he took down Compton handily 3-1. Although the race was tight with Hall and Gabe Owen in the final round 3-2, Owen (after taking the hot seat match), sealed the victory going undefeated through the field of twenty-four.
Results (December 3rd-7th – One Pocket)
1st Gabe Owen $1100
2nd Buddy Hall $800
3rd Chip Compton $500
4th Joey Gray $300
5th/6th Tony Chohan/Scott Frost $230
Moving onto the huge excitement and to cap off the triple play was the $3000 ten-ball entry ring game. This $5000 added battle of competitive spirit was a true test of ones steady handedness. The ring game played at bar tables and limited only thirty-two players, but drew a total of sixteen entries. The format was four men on each table, randomly drawn to those tables, with the players picking numbers to determine their groups. forty-five minute breaks, redrawing the order in the group every ten games. with no safeties allowed.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
February 27, 2008, at Singapore – ESPN STAR Sports’ Guinness 9-Ball Tour 2008 will feature two World Champions as the field is announced for Asia’s premier pool competition. Philippines’ Alex Pagulayan (2004 WPA World Pool Champion) and Chinese Taipei’s Chia-Ching Wu (2005 WPA World Pool Champion) are expected to lead the charge as 24 of Asia’s top pool masters cue off in the opening leg of the Tour in Chinese Taipei from 29 February – 2 March 2008, to be held at the Taipei Gymnasium.
Organised by ESPN STAR Sports with Guinness as the title sponsor, the Tour attracts Asia’s top cuemasters with Asian Professional Billiards Union (APBU) -sanctioned players from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand, India, China and Chinese Taipei taking part.
Chinese Taipei will be looking to repeat last year’s dominance of the Tour with a strong line-up comprising of Wu, last year’s Overall Tour Champion Jung-Lin Chang, Pin-Yi Ko (2007 WPA World Junior Champion), Ching-Shun Yang (2007 Tour Grand Finals Semi-finalist), Hung-Hsiang Wang and Pei-Wei Chang. Countering the challenge will be top-ranked players such as Philippines’ Pagulayan, Joven Bustamante, Jeffrey De Luna, Antonio Gabica and Marlon Manalo and Indonesia’s hot prospects of A. Budi Sumarno, Siauw Wieto and Ricky Yang.
Representing Malaysia yet again is Ibrahim Bin Amir, together with compatriot and Alan Tan, while Singapore has fielded Tour Toh Lian Han and newcomer Aaron Koh. Carrying the flag for Japan and South Korea are Satoshi Kawabata and Ryu Seung Woo respectively as Hong Kong’s Han Xiao-Xiang and Vietnam’s Do Hoang Quan will be looking to do their countries proud. Rounding off the talented field are Thailand’s Nitiwat Kanjanasri and India’s Sumit Talwar.
The Guinness 9-Ball Tour is sanctioned by the Asian Pocket Billiard Union (APBU) and organized by ESPN STAR Sports’ Event Management Group (EMG). Taipei City Government is the co-organiser for the Chinese Taipei leg. Guinness is the title sponsor for the Tour. The local sanctioning body is Chinese Taipei Billiards Association. Iwan Simonis and Aramith supply the official tablecloth and official balls respectively. Brunswick provides the official pool table while Predator is the official cue. BCLN is the official apparel supplier. The Official Hotel is the Sherwood Taipei. STAR Sports is the official broadcaster.
Further information can be obtained at www.g9bt.com
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Blatt Billiards Predator 9-Ball Tour opened up the 2009 season the venue at Raxx Pool Room in West Hempstead, New York with 70 players going for the top prize. Players from the top attendance included Jeremy Sossei, Oscar Bonilla, Ignacio Chavez, Fran Crimi, Empire State Champion Marc “Spain” Vidal, Liz Ford, Sean “Alaska” Morgan, Bobby Blackmore & Tony Robles.
Day one had its share of surprising matches and stand out players. Tony Robles the owner of the tour started out strong with wins over Thomas Wan 8-4 & Marc Vidal 8-3 but trouble against Jeremy Sossei, losing 8-5. Robles fought back through the one-loss side until he ran into Oscar Bonilla, losing 9-7 and finishing 7th/8th.
While Liz Ford started the Predator tour season in winning fashion and smooth. Liz won highest finishing female, easily finishing 3 rounds higher than any of the other ten females in this event. But this wasn’t enough for the WPBA pro as she fought hard at the end of day one defeating Pete Tascarella Sr. 7-4 to return for day two action to play Pete Tascarella Jr., the son in the family of cue makers. Pete Jr. couldn’t tame Miss Ford either and lost to her 9-6. Liz continued to play strong against Jeremy Sossei keeping it close in the beginning, but Jeremy took control of the match at 3-3 and never looked back. Ford lost 9-4 to Sossei, finishing 9th–12th.
Other standout players included John Alicea, who continues to push and test many of the tours top players. On day one, John scored big wins over Victor Nau 8-4 and Jeremy Sossei 9-5. Day two saw John struggle and lose to Mhet Vergara 9-2 and Oscar Bonilla 9-5 leaving Alicea to settle for 5th/6th. Our other 5th/6th finisher was Jerry Tarantola who came out swinging on day one. With his monster break on his side, Tarantola easily defeated Jonathan Trager 8-0, Caroline Pao 8-3, and Pete Tascarella Jr. 8-2. Tarantola looked good playing Bobby Blackmore on day two with a 9-7 win but hit a wall name Ignacio Chavez, losing 9-2. Tarantola seemed to lose his steam and became another Sossei victim finishing with a 9-5 loss.
Mhet Vergara had his best Predator 9-Ball tournament ever staying undefeated on day one with wins over “the other” Allison Fischer, Andrew Kane, Chris Laz, and Lionel Rivera . On day two, Vergara continued to have success with a close call against Holden Chin winning 9-8 & John Alicea 9-2. Vergara then took on Ignacio Chavez for the hot seat. Ignacio played incredible pool this tournament with convincing wins over Dave Danchak 8-3, Steve Wright 8-5, Sean “Alaska” Morgan 8-5, Mike Fingers 9-2, & Jerry Tarantola 9-2. In the hot seat match, Chavez was the clear winner defeating Vergara 9-4.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under Uncategorized |
That is undaunted by the things like a national economic crisis and rising gas prices, Forty-Nine proud pool players from all the across Arizona, plus to the other parts unknown places, descended upon Kolby’s Corner Pocket in Tempe in to the first stop on the 2009 Arizona Desert Classic Tour.
To The first DCT event of the season featured the 8-Ball on 9-ft. Brunswick Gold Crown tables with tough, 11.05-rated pockets. It wasn’t your typical bar room 8-ball banger’s cup o’ tea. No sir, the event was for serious pool players, only.
Despite to the absence of Scott Frost, who was out of the action due for being the recipient of a severe wound as result of a bite from a poisonous spider, the field was full of talent players. Along with many of Arizona’s top cue slingers, several sharpshooters from neighboring states came to take a shot and try at this weekend’s prize money, plus get a fast start in the DCT’s annual points race.
In addition to the well-known big dogs on other hand, many lesser-known and lesser-established players came to out take advantage of a staggered entry fee system that was introduced by the DCT from this year. Through this new system, A-players (AZ 10’s) pay $70, B-players (AZ 8’s and 9’s) pay $50, and C-players (AZ 7’s and below) pay $35, to play. The new entry system is, of course, meant to entice lower-rated players to come out and cut teeth of their own while swimming in a “pool” full of sharks. And apparently, it worked.
The Adroitly organized and presented by Dennis Orender and Jimmy Mendoza of the DCT, this tournament went off without a hitch. Excellent equipment, facilities and services were provided by Jimmy Jo Langston and his superb crew at Kolby’s, making the weekend relaxing and enjoyable for players and fans, alike.
As the chaff was separated from the wheat, these are the players who made it to the “dough.”
1st Leil Gay
2nd Gus Briseno
3rd Bryan Begay
4th Brett Huth
5-6th Dennis Orender, Tres Kane
7-8th Bernie Pettipiece, George Teyechea
The next stop will be March 21- 22 at Bull Shooters in Phoenix. The game will again be 8-Ball, but this time it will be played on bar tables.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
KF Cues 9-Ball Tour (Pete Ultimate Amateur Winner)
The Ultimate Billiards Ft Pierce, Fl hosted the game of $700 and Added Amateur event in the game. The open event had drew a record field of 47 players and as always the Amateur event went to one better by drawing a massive 75 players in all. The Amateur is proving to be the big success and now drawing a huge field of Ladies and junior players by taking advantage of the huge entry fee discounts to all players.
The Ultimate Billiards would also prove to itself by one of the leading rooms in the State of Florida to host an event of this size with its 20 9 ft pool tables and would make things run very smooth now and then.
Mark Wathen would be the man to take the hotseat on the day of the game beating George Saunders into 6-4 and prove why as of late he is a big threat in the Amateur division making his way through to the 2nd final of the season. A newcomer Tony Pete was causing problems on the one loss side having another lost to Wathen on the winners 6-4. Pete had some battle on his way to the finals with a hard fought for 5-4 win over Adam Wheeler followed by a 5-3 win over Ed Kiess, 5-2 win over Josh Lewis where he would be facing Raymond Linares who is another player in the game is so improving fast. This match would go right down to the wire with Linares playing strong pool only to fall short in the last game, at 4-4 linares would make a very tough to the game 7 only to leave himself in a worse position on the 8 and hand the match to Pete leaving Linares in 4th spot. The semi-final would see pete dominate with some fine safety play and Leave George Saunders kicking the balls the whole match and send him out in 3rd place.
The Final, Wathen had been sat around nearly 2 hours and it showed as Pete was gathering momentum on the one loss side Wathen was losing it. Pete would dominate the final taking advantage of a sluggish Wathen to win the match and his first KF event 8-3. The only consolation for Wathen is he would jump to no1 displacing Ted Lepak for the tour points leader.
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 under 9 Ball Billiard |
Jones and Pan New 2008 9-Ball Champions!
2008 9-Ball Champions Jeremy Jones and Xiaoting Pan were recently crowned champions of the 2008 GenerationPool.com in 9-Ball Championships. In the event, hosted by Billiard Congress of America, and was held in conjunction with the 2008 International Billiard and Home Recreation Expo at Charlotte Convention Center, June 8-12, 2008.
In the first final match, both were taped by ESPN, Jones met Ronnie Wiseman to vie for the title of the match. In the error-ridden set, it seemed that both parties’ nerves were getting better and better of them. The score thrilled to 3 apiece — none of which was a run-out. After a miss each on the 8-ball in the following rack, Wiseman take the 8, but then accidentally scratched, moving Jones up a game. He also took the next rack when Wiseman missed a straight-in 9-ball. After pushing out after his next break, Jones capitalized on a failed secured attempt by Wiseman and ran out to reach the track 6-3. Wiseman broke next after missed the 2, but so did Jones, so Wiseman narrowed the gap to 2 racks; however, Jones broke and ran out the final rack to secure the win into 7-4.
The women’s final was actually a rematch in the 4th round, in which Ga Young Kim sent Pan to the one-loss side 9-6. The women seemed a little more settled than the men did, but still they started somewhat shakily than the mens. Kim reached a 3-1 advantage with a safety break and run-out, but Pan tied it up when Kim scratched on the 8-ball in the next rack and then won the following after Kim left her a shot on the 2-ball. Now in her element, Pan broke and ran out for the 4-3 lead to have a dramatic round. When Kim’s 7-ball ejected out of the pocket, Pan moved another step closer in the short race to 7 and thrilled the game. Kim pushed out on her next break, and Pan missed the 1-ball. Kim started to clear the table, but she didn’t leave herself a good shot on the 8-ball and tried to play safe to secured the win. However, Pan had a shot and took it to reach the hill. In the final rack, Pan pocketed three balls on the break and cleared for her 7-4 win. and Ga Young Kim lose.
Posted on Feb 20, 2009 under 9 Ball Updates |
Efren “The Magician” Reyes Is Back On Top
The Filipino billiards star Efren “The Magician” Reyes regained his status as the top billiards moneymaker in billiards, while newly-crowned Filipino world champ Ronnie Alcano follows hot on his heels.
cashed $2,000 of Efren “The Magician” Reyes for ninth-place finish in his recent 2007 World 8-Ball Championship held in the United Arab Emirates to hike his total of $39,350.
In his collection was enough to snatched top from the American Johnny “The Scorpion” Archer. Efren “The Magician” Reyes ws also the biggest earner in the year 2006 with a his new record $644,960 total.
5(five) other Filipinos are in the top 20 worldwide, underscoring the country’s dominance of the Billiards world. “This is yet another testament to the Filipino continued domination of the sport. The reality is that the Filipinos is dominating the billiards industry in all fronts, and to the things are going on, we’re on track for another banner year, maybe better than last year,” said Ernesto Fajardo, president of the Billiards and Snooker Congress of the Philippines.
Filipino pool shooters of all the skill levels constantly play to a Straight Pool, in a game which has all but vanished from the United States and other venues of this game. Straight Pool builds any player’s skills quickly to the way of there carreer, one of the many reason why the Philippines’ champions have reached their ascendancy of our sport.
George Breedlove another American, who won the Skins Billiards Championship in the Massachusetts, also last month, at rank 3 with $29,100 in his pocket.
The former three-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Warren Kiamco at ranked sixth with $19,600, but $1,600 of coming from his awe-inspiring sweep at the US Bar Table Championship in Nevada two weeks ago.
Followed by Rodolfo Luat who had $17,100, while Dennis Orcollo at rank 11 with $14,800.
The former world no.1 Francisco “Django” Bustamante slid at rank 15 from rank 11 with $10,000, while the Filipino pool legend Jose “Amang” Parica at rank 17 with his $8,670.
Also in the list are rank 5 Niels Feijen ($24,250),rank 8 Mika Immonen ($15,250), rank 9 John Schmidt ($15,000), rank Steve Moore ($14,800), rank 12 Jason Miller ($14,550), rank 13 Shannon Daulton ($14,350), rank 14 Corey Deuel ($11,110), rank 16 Rafael Martinez ($9,445), rank 18 Billy Palmer ($8,325), rank 19 David Gutierrez ($8,130), and rank 20 Danny Harriman ($8,050).